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Deuteronomy 23:17

Deuteronomy 23:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

There shall be: etc. The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations. , ; ;

whore: or, sodomitess,

sodomite: ; ; , , ; ; ; ;

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